The Senate voted Thursday to confirm Dr. Ben Carson as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), and Governor Rick Perry as Energy Secretary, adding two more Cabinet leaders to President Donald Trump’s administration.

Secretary Carson passed with a senate approval vote of 58-41; and the vote for Secretary Perry was 62-37.

The Democrats continue using the confirmation process as a slowdown gimmick to stall the Senate from voting on any legislation. The larger Democrat objective is to obstruct any legislative accomplishments as they continue their highly coordinated actions to undermine and attack the Trump agenda.

The Democrats are joined by their UniParty republican colleagues toward that specific endeavor. The aggregate DC swamp is a UniParty of self-interest now openly defending itself -across party lines- from the existential threat that is the Trump ‘swamp draining’ agenda. Additionally, the recent DC narrative against Attorney General Jeff Sessions is simply a variant approach toward the same objective.

The larger American electorate are witnessing why the past several decades have created a legislative bubble of activity that only benefits the special interests and lobbyists who write and construct the legislation.

Unfortunately for their enterprise, President Trump won election despite the professional K-Street lobbying class -funded by Wall Street and special interests- working against him.

Now, as President Trump seeks to enact policies that remove those influences, both sides of the UniParty apparatus rise up in opposition to the reform. Some are able to do it more openly than others, but all intents and purposes remain the same.

…It’s really nothing more than a big club, and the politicians want desperately to keep the American electorate out of it…

Donald Trump, the Candidate had an awesome social media presence that was on message, on offense, never on defense, and always won the news cycle. I don’t know what Scavino Jr. is doing now on twitter, but its not much and its not forward messaging.
The social media machine needs to start rolliing again (ie-TrumpTrain) b/c as I sit here in the middle of the country it looks like NY-DC is in a FLAME WAR

They took out Flynn. They’re trying to take out Gorska. They’re screaming & wanting to peel off Sessions. So that Trump is alone.

I know that POTUS and his counsel told DOJ Sessions not to recuse himself but Sessions just did. Calls for Special Prosecutor have already begun by REPUBLICANS. My question is – who for? for what offense?

POTUS can’t stop the republicans in congress but we can. The problem is #45 needs a social media General FAST to start fighting fire with fire so WE have some direction on where to go to have an impact, like in the campaign! This is OBAMA and Valerie Jarrett we’re talking about, who just moved into Michelle’s home to run the shadow government 2 miles from where Trump now lives. Funny how they lost 30,000+ emails but they saved all the documents as they crammed their suitcases full on their way out the door to leak and bring down Trump drip by drip w/the MSM which Scavino Jr. is doing nothing to counter.

He has no strategic role. His is to show transparency in the administration with videos and stills, so that everyone knows what Trump is doing from day to day. I haven’t noticed any difference from then to now. He posts a lot every day.

I’ve been wondering why Scavino hasn’t had higher visibility. If it’s because he’s lit up 100 times as bright through proxies and surrogates now, then hey – I get that, and not a problem. But if that’s not the case, then it is WAY past time to step it up. Scavino should be an accursed name in every vegetarian cafe from Berkeley to Boston.

To me, the social media person is just like the people in the movie meme – EXPENDABLE, and they should act like it. AR’s and AK’s of tweets and memes flaming across the internet, until every moonbat is screaming in rage. If he or she is mortally wounded, replace with MILO and repeat.

Sessions recused himself today from a Trump investigation; but Sen.Dick (lied about VietnamServ)Blumenthal) today on Senate Tee-Vee suggested that maybe AG Sessions should resign, due to fact that AGSessions, when Sen. met with “muh Russians,

Something needs done. The sabotage needs to be rooted out. And I would say that ALL intelligence officials or agents who interact with the press need to be frozen in place pending review of all media manipulation by the IC. Shut off their valid interactions. Any violations – immediate termination.

I lean towards digging in and refusing to acknowledge the claims of the MSM. It’s only been three weeks, let alone 100 days into this administration. Trump can’t spend the next 4 years constantly replacing cabinet members.

Thanks for posting this link. I used to get notices on my Facebook page, even with the option to be reminded when these start, but noticed over the past week that I have to hunt through a maze of diversionary websites on FB just to find these; almost as if those who run that website are purposely hiding access to the live events. Just crazy.

On a more pleasant note, very glad to see Rick Perry getting confirmed, and with a lot of Democrat support, too. He will be an excellent Secretary of Energy, and I’m very happy to see that Washington can behave sensibly when they put their minds to it.

Impugning the reputation of Jeff Sessions does not fall into the category of “sensible”, however, and thus I am burning with cold anger at the moment. Trying not to light any fires.

Rick Perry may be the most qualified Secretary of Energy the USA has ever had. He has extensive knowledge in the operation of Coal, Oil, Gas, Nuclear, Wind and even Solar. He has managed one of the largest and best States in the USA.

The Leftists started the 30 hour clock on Rick Perry right after Ben Carson was confirmed and then several hours later – they were willing to vote. Odd

The leftist trolls on the WH site are all screaming that Perry isn’t a MS or PhD, and I just want to stuff flaming diplomas in their pants. Perry actually gets the most fundamental aspect of the job – the idea that hamstringing energy hamstrings America, and that doing the opposite transforms America.

Just look at the last guy. A complete spud for Obama, who helped him propagandize for the nuclear travestreaty with Iran.

I don’t care if somebody understands how E = mc^2 works – if they don’t get how the anti-energy agenda works, and who it helps, all the technical knowledge is worthless.

Agree. I’ll expand on it a bit, though, just to justify my oxygen usage.

The ONLY case where E=mc^2 really matters might be for nukes (and oh by the way it’s fairly simple as physics goes), but honestly, you can probably get by in the job with less than a technician’s understanding of nuclear power. You don’t need to know them well enough to operate them, just understand in general terms what goes in (fuel rods of enriched uranium, or potentially U-238 for breeders, other things for thorium reactors) and what comes out (radioactive waste; a bit more complicated, and bred fuel as applicable) and perhaps what the hazards are.

I think it would be quite instructive to see what horrible tentacles the Obama and Hillary people were sending into Cuba, Iran and elsewhere, during not just their interim period in late 2008-2009, but well prior to that in 2007-2008. I presume that it is precisely the Democrats’ wariness when collaborating with enemies of the US (like they did during Vietnam), that made them think the dumb Republicans could be hammered on less carefully guarded dealings with Russia during the interregnum.

This is during the transition. Obama was presumably monitoring everything, and at the same time setting up the sanctions stuff. This is IC, abused by Obama, setting up a way to attack Trump after out of office.

These people are EVIL. They wag dogs everywhere for personal political power.

This guy is pure evil. He has an interesting assortment of protectors on Twitter as well, who seem like Deep State pros.

I think an indictment of Hillary on Rosatom kickbacks is what is scaring them. My guess is that tainted DOJ staff were touched for information on the Clinton Foundation, and BOOM – the flags went up among the Obama holdovers in DOJ that protection was needed immediately from Creep State and the media.

My thought on all this garbage against Sessions today (just the most recent victim) is when are we going on the offensive?? Cooler heads may be telling Trump to be calm, we don’t have every Cabinet appointment in place, blah blah blah but you can’t tell me that we don’t have atomic bombs armed to take down some of these sleaze bags who are fomenting so much unrest. We need more than Trump tweets too .. some arrests or lawsuits or something tangible and muscular is what I have in mind.

I think the offensive started, that Sessions has begun it, the way it’s done professionally, and that is what this is all about. They know that Sessions is bringing the trucks and trailers up to the swamp. The first trucks parked, and the Dems started screaming.

I think that when the first rumblings of arrests are made, they will come through leaks. The enemedia will be used to flip the narrative in defense of the criminals. But that is when we’ll hear about them.

Every time I read these ditties by the press about contact with Russians insinuating that Russia tipped the election toward President Trump I am reminded that the majority of the country still believes the myth about the “hands up don’t shoot” so figure the Dems, IC and others have figured out that having the press repeat these lies enough really does work.

Is it too much to ask for a television network to figure out that they might just succeed by NOT playing these games?

Whenever I read about some new Iraqi or Syrian body dump with hundreds or thousands of dead, discovered in ISIS-held territory, I am torn between hanging those deaths around McMuffin’s neck – and having pity on him, realizing just how horrible that knowledge would be, when what he did was what he thought was his patriotic duty.

This is part of my admiration for Trump. He was not swept up in the demand for war in Iraq. He knew better than to go there. He knew better than me not to go there.

Gives one perspective on WWII. Cultural Marxism can reduce people to the kind needed to do what happened then, or what could happen now.

McConnell is fine. First thing first. Trump needs a full cabinet, but Senate rules allow Democrats to slow down the process. Don’t worry, the payback time is approaching fast. These anti-Trump bastards will regret big league all the crap they’re doing. Their donors could be “recused” from the budget…

CTH does have a bunch of characters who could well give SNL a run for its money and bring in far more viewers. Good one, Tejas Rob and many others! Humor will get us through until our PDJT has his people in place, then we let go on the treasonous idiots. Til then…:) 🙂 🙂

For the same reason cuckservatives attacked and slandered Trump during the primaries with acidity we thought they were not capable of (because, surely, they would have mounted this offensive against the “opposition” party), we witness the fangs and claws and long knives in the night bared against the strongest and most dangeous of his team. Picking off the Flynns and Sessions and Tillersons and Bannons and Millers of the group is their prime directive, because only those with big bold patriot streaks need be clipped to send the message to the rest. The neocon castrati are grasping for anybody with courage and conviction. Stand tall and proud, Team Trump.

Carson should start trolling the media. Talk about meeting Russian women years ago at medical conferences. He can even pull some PC strings, talking about their better sex ratio of women doctors back then. The racist media won’t realize that he’s just pulled their “black man / white woman” scandal trigger. They’ll throw half their staffs on the story, looking for dirt that’s not there.

Well glad youve gotten it straightened out….i think we may ditch our fios tv in a few months, and ditch Verizon when our phones are up for replacement at that time. Hope you get better service…. this isnt going to work..

We’re had really crazy experiences with Fios-we never got it installed but just some weird stuff. I had to order an installer off our property, we’ve had people show up for “installation” when we never ordered it-weird.

We do still have Time Warner Cable and internet. Verizon for phones. All works well.

Oh Steve … I hate this for you so much! I look forward to your smart and witty posts every day and knowing you’re cut off from us thru no fault of your own really bugs me. I’m devoid of tech skills but know you have many and hope you can resolve this issue post haste. Meantime, we will miss you! Take good care.

SteveinCO, if you’re going to a new phone plan, I use usmobile. No contract, ala carte (phone, text and data) menu. If you run out before your monthly plan will renew, you can add more. Unfortunately, your time won’t roll over but it’s so inexpensive, it doesn’t matter.
Here is a chart with what they offer:https://www.usmobile.com/plans

Godspeed Dr. Carson and former Governor Perry! President Trump’s “Team of Patriots” is now nearly complete. As President Trump said in his Presidential Address, in nine years we will be celebrating our quarter millennium as an independent country. For those who question Sessions’ requesual, it was actually a part of his agreement to serve as Attorney General. The DOJ must be independent or we become a banana republic like the Obama years. The key is no special prosecutor. Believe in the power of positive thinking! MAGA!

You know these unrelenting attacks on each and every bit of Trump’s operation will never, ever stop. From the most innocuous to the biggest. It is existential survival for the uniparty. And for the transformation Trump represents. Only one winner can emerge. Unfortunately the new administration has been fighting nonstop just to get into place and settle down to business. And every moment of everyday is just more and more of the same obstruction and sabotage.

The message should be clear that this is a civil war,, fought through the corridors of government and the murky dark channels that crisis cross the Washington swamp. Trump has to stop his team from taking body blow after body blow. The cumulative effect is demoralizing and only encourages the opposition. Trump is the one with the power. He can’t leave even the perception of compromise or acceptance of the false set of premises his enemies throw out there. Speeches are great, but action speaks volumes. Time to challenge each and every accusation fully. With documents and proof, not just verbal denials. And document each and every instance of an Obama associate doing equal or worse things. The narrative with it’s false premises needs to be utterly incinerated.

No, it’s not. He’s watching these arrogant bullies make fools of themselves, flapping their jaws over the stuff that made us go nuts over the last three administrations (and more for some). Foolish people playing foolish games. Foolilsh people who have not left childhood games behind.

Don’t think the Russians aren’t watching, and Iran, and China, and all the others who know this world has gotten out of control with children wearing big boy pants and screwing up.

Nigel Farage does not attend Trump’s rallies, dinners and other affairs for naught. Powerful CEOs from the private sector have not given up their private lives for daily battles in The Fishbowl because they don’t believe in our President’s leadership and vision.

Silence is golden until your people are in place and your game plan can be executed.

True, History, but you can’t prove a negative. This is what makes these attacks so pernicious.
“He did X!”
“He did NOT X!”
“Prove it he didn’t X!”
“Ummmm, he just didn’t X. Where is your proof he did X?”
“Anonymous sources said he did X.”
Rinse and repeat. Notice that both accusation and denial are repeated every time.

You know these unrelenting attacks on each and every bit of Trump’s operation will never, ever stop. From the most innocuous to the biggest. It is existential survival for the uniparty. And for the transformation Trump represents. Only one winner can emerge. Unfortunately the new administration has been fighting nonstop just to get into place and settle down to business. And every moment of everyday is just more and more of the same obstruction and sabotage.

The message should be clear that this is a civil war,, fought through the corridors of government and the murky dark channels that crisis cross the Washington swamp. Trump has to stop his team from taking body blow after body blow. The cumulative effect is demoralizing and only encourages the opposition. Trump is the one with the power. He can’t leave even the perception of compromise or acceptance of the false set of premises his enemies throw out there. Speeches are great, but action speaks volumes. Time to challenge each and every accusation fully. With documents and proof, not just verbal denials. And document each and every instance of an Obama associate doing equal or worse things. The narrative with it’s false premises needs to be utterly incinerated.

Obama “changed” the order of Succession if they could take AG Sessions OUT, TeamTrump discovered that after the treachery of Sally Yates and they “changed” it back.
I’m guessing they have confidence in the next in line – PLUS, the Deputy AG will go before the Judicial Committee next week ……. we need to PUSH-PUSH-PUSH on that confirmation.

Dana Boente is the #2 guy at Justice, what we know now is that Obama “changed” the order to remove him and President Trump put him back in the succession order.

Arkansas did, too. We tried to stop it but you know how that goes. In fact, Obamacare and the Medicaid expansion is the reason we got enough votes for a (R) Gov & Lege, but it should come as no surprise we still have expanded Medicaid and can’t pay for it. I think the money should come out of the bank accts. of the Gov & Legislators.

Read the article – it doesn’t matter if “Bloomberg sucks” — what matters is the Reality.
The Reality is that ObamaCare doubled the poverty level for Medicaid, the vast majority of the ObamaCare sign-ups were Medicaid and the States got that PAID for by the FEDS. 31 States took that DEAL & it’s worth big bucks to them, Big Bucks they will lose if a new Insurance Plan doesn’t pay them the Big Bucks to cover their own Medicaid programs.

It’s all about the MONEY ….. none of it has to do with what is good for the Country, just what is good for their State. A major part of ObamaCare was putting more people at the poverty level so they could force States to comply …… that appears to be working for these GOP Governors that don’t want to lose that money.

Block Grants forcing States to figure out the best plan for them, that THEY pay for is the only option.

Oh, this was a GREAT statement by Perry. Trump gets it. Perry gets it. The whole team gets it. They understand what is possible – what the Democrats and globalists have been trying to stop, for whatever dark reasons they have.

Sec’y Carson could devastate all those HUD power brokers who use the most inane excuses for the department failure over multiple administrations. Our new Sec’y of HUD is no man’s fool. This is “to watch and learn” as a 201 course in public management.

Republicans have come under increasing criticism for secrecy over the ins and outs of the replacement healthcare bill.
As Bloomberg reports: “The document is being treated a bit like a top-secret surveillance intercept. It is expected to be available to members and staffers on the House Energy and Commerce panel starting Thursday, but only in a dedicated reading room, one Republican lawmaker and a committee aide said. Nobody will be given copies to take with them.”

(Incidentally, Energy is the department Perry forgot he wanted to totally eliminate when he had his famous Senior Moment during that one debate. That IS a really cool irony. And I hope he still wants to eliminate it.)

I find myself conflicted regarding AG Sessions recusal today. On the one hand, he recused himself from an investigation that may never come to pass since I believe this is just a politically driven witch hunt with no real evidence of criminal wrongdoing. I’m hopeful the adults in the DOJ will do the right thing. (Although I’m worried now about the Obama appointed acting AG who may now lead the possible investigation).

On the other hand, I am working towards hot anger towards the blood-thirsty political hacks of the UniParty …Dems, spineless RINOs, and CoC-backed Republicans….who are hell-bent on destroying the Trump administration at all cost. Their attacks won’t end with AG Sessions’ recusal. Trying to maintain a status of cold anger is getting more difficult daily.

“The larger American electorate are witnessing why the past several decades have created a legislative bubble of activity that only benefits the special interests and lobbyists who write and construct the legislation.”

You know, I really hope the larger American electorate are starting to realize this. This isn’t even close to the kind of stalling we saw with Obama, and he and his media pals crowed on and on about how the Republicans are obstructionist, and the Republicans just took it. Now we have (what is supposed to be) the same party controlling everything and *still* Congress stalls and stalls. I hope the larger American electorate puts two and two together, realizes that something is wrong if Congress is dysfunctional no matter who is in control, and starts to wake up to the truth of the UniParty swamp.

We need as many people as possible to wake up so we can drain the Congressional swamp in 2018.

Things I like about Carsom
1. He has his own ideas and speaks his mind
2. He knows what it is like to live in public housing, which means he understands the cold terror of possibly not having a roof over your head, as well as the cold terror of living in a place where the guys next door might rob your place as soon as you go to the store – and eventually you will have to go to the store
3. He doesn’t appreciate stupid
4. He is not a chicken and crossed the line to work with Trump